Economist: Montana likely to outperform nation

The director of the University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research says Montana won’t be immune from the pain of the U.S. economic turmoil.

But Patrick Barkey says he expects the state’s economy to outperform the nation’s.

Barkey shared his outlook at a Thursday meeting of the Legislative Finance Committee.

He says Montana’s economy was extraordinarily robust for four years and surpassed national growth levels for most of the decade, but is now cooling.

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